Monkeys: An Amazing Animal Family

Patrick Aryee takes us on a journey through time to retrace the primate family’s astonishing rise to power through the twists and turns of its family tree.

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Natural History

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Sky, Smithsonian Channel, France 5, CCTV & Discovery Channel

Travelling to wild locations in Central and South America, Africa and Asia, Patrick gets eye to eye with some of the planet’s most charismatic and mischievous monkeys in three spellbinding episodes.

Patrick reveals amazing stories of how each of the world’s primate species came to be. It’s a 65 million year journey through intimate monkey encounters, sumptuous wildlife photography and field demos. We show how different key members of this family evolved bizarre body-types, intelligent behaviours and tight-knit social groups to thrive in some of the planet’s wildest landscapes.

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Mischievous monkeys. Intelligent apes. And a cast of charismatic and eccentric cousins and distant relatives. Over the course of 55 million years, primates have evolved and branched off to conquer the world. But how did they rise to power?
Join host and biologist Patrick Aryee on a journey through time, and across the globe, to come face-to-face with some of the 400+ species of primates thriving in our jungles, deserts, grasslands and mountains. It's a story of epic migrations, lost lands, mass extinctions, and one remarkable family tree. Travelling to wild locations in Central and South America, Africa and Asia, Patrick gets eye to eye with some of the planet’s most charismatic monkeys
Over the series, Patrick reveals amazing stories of how each of the world’s primate species came to be. It’s a 65 million year epic. Through intimate monkey encounters, sumptuous wildlife photography and field demos, we show how different key members of this family evolved bizarre body-types, intelligent behaviours and tight-knit social groups to thrive in some of the planet’s wildest landscapes